Words and music: garland jeffreys Board boy, board boy, rolling down the road board boy, board boy, what have you been told Do you wear your jeans of blue? Oh that way is paved with gold Board boy, board boy what have you been sold Yes boy, no boy, you don’t have to use your […]
It was seven o’clock in the morning Too late to handle the day At home it was only two thirty The skin on my wrists turning grey Stood up, wished us good luck He changed his attitudes twice The box in the corner shivered in fear He was tired and hungry for days. The next […]
Amsterdam - Vintage Violence
She’s back from amsterdam And i think the journey did her well Her face has lost it’s touch The tell tale signs of loneliness inside But i love her still And need her company still more Come down, come down once more And i think, the journey, did her well She says she fell in […]
Everybody’s praying for the rains to come And the snow is gonna fall, down on me Lost up in the desert with a gun in my hand And the locust gonna come to find me. Started long ago, in my paper cup saloon And the back-room boys still carrying that same old tune We’ve just […]
The manager is waiting to be paid Along with priests and deacons of his court A quartermaster, quite a man, a mistress of the line Has found a last cent avenue of pain A mardi gras just passed this way a while ago Making hungry people of us all Along the mississippi you can hear […]
Please - Vintage Violence
Won’t you help me please, I’m growing old A million years ago Won’t you help me sneeze, I’ve caught a cold Another way to go Just hold on tightly This shows on my breed They speak so very slow It gets so hard to follow Slowly in the mist of captive eyes To carry you […]
Cleo - Vintage Violence
Cleo, cleo, won’t you come around and play girl Cleo, cleo, won’t you come around and stay girl You can find the lines to say, if you try Someone else has just confessed To drinking up all your wine. Cleo, cleo, there’s a way for you to find out How you should say, what you […]
When i stand, my back to the sea A big white cloud, looking right down on me Sound of sun, missing my eyes Everything’s clear, everything’s bright Big white cloud, big white cloud Big white cloud on me Big white cloud, big white cloud Big white cloud on me. Time to kill on the hill […]
Adelaide - Vintage Violence
I want to go home, i want to go home I want to go back to adelaide It’ s time for a change, don’t want to be late It’s probably night in adelaide In a day or two, i’ll be there asking for you To come back to adelaide with me The weather there is […]
Holding on, with both eyes, to things that don’t exist Peering through the cutting wrist, at grand old mother greedy Rolling out the cotton ship, upon the carpet pillow Throttling children callously, a messy day with clancy Gideon lied and gideon died The force of china felt Gideon smiled as gideon died The thought of […]
